AADL Talks To: Bill Ayers
Bill Ayers is a retired Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. During his time in Ann Arbor during the 1960s, he served as director of Ann Arbor's experimental Children's Community School; Education Secretary for the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); and co-founder of the militant Weather Underground organization, which originated in Ann Arbor in 1969 as a far left-wing revolutionary party.
Ayers traces the path of his political awakening from wide-eyed college freshman to seasoned student organizer and educator. He reflects on the tumultuous moral dilemma he and many activists faced as the Vietnam War raged on in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He discusses the factionalism within the SDS leadership that resulted in the formation of the Weather Underground; how the strands of student activism during this turbulent time were rooted in the moral agenda outlined by Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.; and his lifelong pedagogic commitment to education.
Three More Protesters Go To Jail
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Discipline Case Suspended
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Chinese students denounce 'new Hitlers'
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Dean Baker and Liz Gottlieb Protest In Front of State Theater, May 1986 Photographer: Colleen Fitzgerald
Year:
1986
Ann Arbor News, May 31, 1986
Caption:
Free Popcorn: U-M students Dean Baker and Liz Gottlieb handed out free popcorn Friday night in front of the State Theater to renew a long-standing protest against owner Kerasotes Theaters. Organizers said they hoped the free popcorn would cut into sales inside the theater. The theater, one of three owned by Kerasotes, has been boycotted since the chain bought it in 1984 and fired union projectionists, replacing them with non-union workers. Last year, Kerasotes sued The Pinkertons, a street theater group that staged protest skits in front of the theater, saying they had cost the chain $10,000 in revenue. That suit was settled out of court earlier this year.
Invocation: A Protest
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Preparing For Night
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Black United Front Students Fill U-M Administration Building, February 18, 1975 Photographer: Cecil Lockard
Year:
1975
Spectators Watch Black Action Movement Sit-In Unfold At U-M Administration Building, February 18, 1975 Photographer: Cecil Lockard
Year:
1975
Black Action Movement Sit-In Underway at U-M Administration Building, February 18, 1975 Photographer: Cecil Lockard
Year:
1975